These awards, thanks to our enthusiastic nominators and dedicated jurors, showed me, the rest of Canada, and the world at large a depth and breadth of Canadian blogging that we would not have otherwise seen, and I am so grateful to everyone who took part.

Elan Morgan is a blogger, designer and consultant, and speaker who blogs and works from schmutzie.com, spreads gratitude through the graceinsmallthings.com social network, celebrates quality blogging with the canblogawards.com, and speaks all over. She has been seen in the Globe & Mail, Best Health and Woman's Day magazines, TEDxRegina, and on CBC News and Radio. She believes in and works to grow both personal and professional quality, genuine community, and meaningful content online.

The 2014 Canadian Weblog Awards winners are here! Over the course of the last year, we (that means us, Aidan and Elan) have been making spreadsheets, verifying nominations, coding, social-media-ing, and bringing together a large and diverse jury, and it's hard to believe that we're already announcing our finalists.

The first of our two jury rounds is over! 34 jurors have adjudicated 530 blogs in 26 categories using our 10 criteria to narrow down the search for the top five blogs shortlisted in each category in the 2014 Canadian Weblog Awards.

Our incredible volunteer jurors have put in a great number of hours over the last week to critique hundreds of some of the best blogs by Canadians, and it is an honour to work with them. Following this announcement, these dedicated jurors will work through a second and final round of jury duty to uncover our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in each category. We will announce the 2014 Canadian Weblog Awards winners on December 15th.

And now on to the 2014 Canadian Weblog Awards nominees shortlist! The following list shows the top five nominees in each of our 26 categories in no particular ranking order:

December 5 – December 12, 2014The volunteer jury chooses the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in each category using our ten criteria for content and design, plus points for category fit and a registered domain name.

December 15, 2014The 2014 Canadian Weblog Awards winners are announced!